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<h3 align="center">Codename: STIMPy </h3><!--</div>-->

<p>      Codename: STIMPy started as a very small project of limited scope.  We were in our third quarter at school and were taking our second Visual Basic class.  As a final project, we had to make a working VB program that incorporated everything that we had learned.  STIMPy was Jason and Nathan's final project.  You probably don't want to know about the projects of the rest of the class.  The only things that could be done with the program were registration, login, and send a peer-to-peer message. You even had to have the IP address of the person you wanted to send that message to.  The whole class became involved with the testing and demonstration, and soon, IP addresses were being yelled out across the room.  Jason and Nathan received a perfect score. </p>

<p>      Once out of the VB class, all of the work on STIMPy was done at Nathan and Jason's respective homes.  During some incredibly wild times at his house, Nathan found some code that allowed a feature called multi-casting.  Multi-casting allows multiple, simultaneous connections to one port.  After discovering this, Nathan and Jason got to work adding in the code to allow multi-casting to work in STIMPy.  Also during this time, the early team got permission to use STIMPy as a graduation project.  After a few more months, we had all fulfilled the requirements to reach our sixth quarter. After more coding, STIMPy went from a peer-to-peer program to pure server communication.  So, instead of needing to connect directly to the IP of the person you would like to communicate with, you would both send information to the server.  Then, the server sends the message to the right person.  File transfer ability was also added at that time.  Jason tried to add encryption, but at the time it just didn't work out. Around this time, Christie came on board to work on the interface. </p>

<p>      Up to this point, the program had been done in VB 6.  Then we found VB.NET.  The client initially wasn't moved over to .NET, we just used .NET for encryption.  The first major change that was made with the new programming environment was to port the server.  For this, a hash-table was made and a better user class was implemented.   </p>

<p>      Now in our seventh quarter, things are heating up.  There's not much time left before the whole project is due.  The best way to speed up the programming process is to bring more dedicated people to the dev team.  So, Andrew, Art, Brian, Mike and I have joined.   Since the start of the seventh quarter, much more progress has been made.  The client is now being written in .NET, as are the back-end features such as messaging, friends lists, and registration.  We have started adding groups and permissions as well.    </p>

<p>Recently, the domain www.codenamestimpy.com was acquired, and now our webpage is up.  We've even decided to make a Java client that has the same interface.  What will happen next?  Well, we won't know until we get there, but Codename: STIMPy is on its way.</p>{/if}